The List: 12 Feb 1993 (Issue 194)

Craig Ilcuan reviews the THE BELOVED Morales and llobert liwens; “iooo new ideas. Conscience (East West) Yrs From Today’ is a breezy l ’ Three years ago, we all watched ‘The futuristic love song that wouldn’t be I ' Sun ltlslng’, expressed our inner found wanting within the Larry ‘Mr " ‘iiapplness’ and then, when bored, got . Fingers’ lleard experiment, while the totally ‘Blissed liut’ with The right-on ‘llock To The llhythm (it love’ . Beloved’s .lon Marsh. Since then, is not a million light years from Gary Steve, the other half, has been Ciall’s ‘Who Pays the Plper’. i replaced by .ion’s better half, Helena, War, famine and suffering may on production and writing duties. plague the Earth but Jon always finds 3

little has changed, and if anything room to be optimistic. The music is l _ The Beloved are even mellower than wholesome, clever guitar riffs and l . - .' ‘7 before. keyboard loops dot the picture, while i .l k. . h . . . | sittegiegwlfeiyr “lmm'ﬂﬂ'y 'mm't'mwd'ls excellent vocal hannonles on the likes

suits. In l987. the Kanes could get away with ‘Labour Of Love' (Circa)‘s

gm” “5" '“ '9‘7’3' . .. . “ ‘“ ' _ This, after all, Is lust a day in the life 21:25.? 1- ' ._ of the tweesome threesome (chats, And neither do Boyfriend. " ~ r Skits! thoughts) as set to a space'mnk despite being ﬁrmly v) ' ‘gg‘ ,. heaehh.’ (h he“, Begum.” m nme soundtrack. 0n side one, the flow of founded on the tenets of rest? And space) (Hekm) conversation, heart-murmur beats and

musical Glasgow‘s newest creed: ‘Thou shalt be lank and thine guitars shall go dur-dur-dur like you don't care-eth'. ‘Hey Big Star‘ (August) is as duff and obvious as its title. A plague

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Sesame Street, gigehle mahets are 3 0f Slick (Cool Like Dat)’ sticks out like ilew York trio for whom, now that the a mommy thumb-

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ﬁrst release for [his rough n tumble Stones-style rifferama, Edinburgh label is “Wired All illght’, which only sounds disembodied thrash that ridiculous when you remember that

even a cement mixer would it’s IIIIIIIOMITB fop MICK 38998! that’s have rtlrougle jiggling abom. singing it. But by the same token, he’s Anot er 00d Thing- 11388 - created a style which is lust . . . Convincing ‘5 G'asgow's ' Jagger and it’s become pointless to iienry Brothers‘ ‘Shining ’ Days. (Rockytonk). whose measure him up against the ace bmked to m , shouters he started off lmitatlng. This . ge er country- cajun joviality is enthusiasm '8 “at he doe" 0m ability. same almost We may have llick llubln to thank tor ﬁnally. complete our pan- a what vigour ‘Wanderlng Spltlt’ does galactic time-trawl across 3 have, though It still doesn’t cut it Scotland‘s music. ‘Bum A I when sat up 393m“ cumm Industry Hole in Me (Manatee). after : standards "kc, 83', mm, mum 3:;gtaggegefugﬁd Perky - i colour or Jane’s Addiction. But by his reapproximation of The ‘ own mndam’ shﬂveuod as may may Sound of Young Scotland. be, it holds its head above water. lie And afore ye go . . . Special I "mks: although on' do” I" "'9 mention to the dramatic Impression that it’s only to prove he splendour of ‘I Feel You‘ Still can. lb does the high '0'“, (Mute) by Depeche Mode because it’s one of the few weapons ‘33“ "'P‘IS'E‘ZX in his armoury. And he slows down to a “23:23:31), #322233?" comtortabie pace, once in a while, to .COS Dave Gm“ granny show that, hey, he’s a sensitive, aware used to cut the half-time 9'" and" a" the Nude" oranges for Meadowbank Thistle and Jarvis Cocker is But hardly tlrst-rate. Gaelic for ‘prissy old fop‘. (Alastalr Mahboﬂ)